Access Restriction Bypass The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package midgard2-core  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-MIDGARD2CORE-264497
  • published26 Jan 2015
  • disclosed26 Jan 2015

Introduced: 26 Jan 2015

CVE-2014-8148  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream midgard2-core package and not the midgard2-core package as distributed by Ubuntu.

The default D-Bus access control rule in Midgard2 10.05.7.1 allows local users to send arbitrary method calls or signals to any process on the system bus and possibly execute arbitrary code with root privileges.